{"id":1187,"date":"2020-09-20T16:33:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T15:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2020-09-30T14:57:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T13:57:09","slug":"scotland-and-scotrail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/09\/20\/scotland-and-scotrail\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland and Scotrail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m on holiday at present in the suburbs of Edinburgh, visiting Queensferry and enjoying a coffee just under the Forth Bridge. Engineers it seems, really do work on maintaining the bridge all the time. Here\u2019s a photo of one dangled on a rope beneath it. You might need to enlarge the photo to verify that really is a person so precariously dangled! More seriously, Scotrail seem to have a train running over the bridge every few minutes. Local stations such as Dalmeny and North Queensferry fare significantly better than similar sized communities such as Widdrington (1 train a day) or Belford (nothing). Inverkeithing had a service every few minutes (6 per hour weekdays) which again left me wondering about the hapless Cramlington (1 train an hour). This is the same East Coast Main Line, though admittedly with fewer long-distance services north of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1188\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20-09-20-Forth-Rail-Bridge-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20-09-20-Forth-Rail-Bridge-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20-09-20-Forth-Rail-Bridge-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20-09-20-Forth-Rail-Bridge-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20-09-20-Forth-Rail-Bridge-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20-09-20-Forth-Rail-Bridge-1600x2133.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20-09-20-Forth-Rail-Bridge-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>An engineer hangs suspended from the Forth Rail Bridge at North Queensferry (20th Sep 20). D Fancett<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m on holiday at present in the suburbs of Edinburgh, visiting Queensferry and enjoying a coffee just under the Forth&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chairmans-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}